ALL OUR YESTERDAYS

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18 nostalgic photos capture life around Leeds in 1955

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  1. Pic 1 – Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer

    Pic 10 – A Valmet tractor, made in Finland

    Pic 13 — A quick search reveals that there is still a Hagelauer car-dealership in Heilbronn to this day

    Pic 17 — Are those trams in Australia by any chance?

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    1. Hi DonDon.

      Some clues can be deceptive. The Melbourne on the tram refers to the brewery name, not where it is.

      The big building at the rear left is more helpful. It’s now a shopping mall, but was originally the city’s Corn Market. It’s not in Scotland either…

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  2. interesting the mcVities biscuit ad was educational – showing the real maths. Never seen today. Best we get – educationally speaking – is some pseudo science in cosmetic and dietary ads

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    1. Some of the supermarkets (not the manufacturers) do put that kind of information on their shelf labels so you can work out whether it is cheaper overall to buy the larger box… they compare the price per 100 grams.

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  4. No. 7 is where Tam O’Shanter’s Meg lost her tail, and where you now often see newlyweds getting their photies took – auld brigs trump scary witches?

    Some old towns further down, but not Scottish ones, I’ll wager…

    …one I recognise (No.17), and one I might remember (No. 20) if I can place those jettied gables on the left side of the street. Wales, I think?

    There’s old townsfolk too. I spy Jack Howarth (early-ish Coronation Street’s Albert Tatlock) in No. 15, and more up-to-date, Irene Handl in No. 14.

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  5. Dear goodness, what on earth is that “Potato Fudge” meant to be?

    All the goodness of natures potato – the Potato. (did anyone expect natures potato to be anything else?)

    And why, just why, would you want to serve caramel or chocolate flavour with parsley on the side?

    Tell me it is some primitive version of an April fool.

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  6. I very rarely get these, but I knew Nana Mouskouri, my dad was a big fan. He also liked Demis Roussos (another Greek singer who was a big guy with quite a squeaky voice)

    We had a good Finish friend in Dar es Salaam who worked for Valmet tractors

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    1. Small world.

      Demis Roussos was a bit strange. He was a big man who wore Kaftans, and sang in a high voice.

      In another connection with the video above, Nana Mouskouri is Petula’s neighbour in Geneva.

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      1. First heard the “unusual “voice of Demis Roussos in the late sixties on John Peel Radio 1 show when he was part of Greek group Aphroditie’s Child.Got a bit of surprise first time I saw him on TV. Not how I had imagined him! I remember Clive James describing him as having an inner warm-like a compost heap. A bit cruel.

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  8. Pic 8 – Self evident stamp dispensing machines that used be found outside major Post Offices (remember when they were imposing separate buildings in most towns and cities) and elsewhere from an era when you didn’t need a bank loan to pay for a stamp

    Pic 16 - Riley Elf, upmarket BMC Mini with a boot

    OT Here’s wishing that anyone else going on the BiS march in Glasgow has a great time

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    1. Amazing, the cost of stamps. I almost never send letters, but I looked it up.

      A first-class stamp for a standard letter will rise to £1.35. The price of a second-class stamp for a standard letter will rise to £0.85.

      I love that Riley.

      Hear hear to the last comment!

      My name will be on one of the flags.

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      1. I found Pic8 interesting in that the machine accepted both decimal and pre-decimal coinage at the same time.
        The 50p coin was introduced in October 1969 and the 3d coin was dropped on decimalisation day, 15th Feb 1971.
        Although old coinage was still used for a short time after D-day (as it was commonly known) this is a very narrow time window from which to date the shot.

        Pic2 shows us a rare vehicle, the Jensen Tug, which was a post WW2 into the 1950s light commercial vehicle.
        I remember just one being used locally by British Railways at the same time as dozens of the Scammell Scarab three-wheeler.
        It had a similar tight (22ft.) turning circle (shown here on full-lock) and small engine, being derived from the Austin A50, a B-series 1500cc petrol design.
        Jensen made much more prestigious vehicles than this, of course.
        As well as the famous Interceptor and highly advanced Interceptor FF – with four-wheel drive and anti-lock braking, decades before these features became common – they produced the C-V8 predecessor model, which was seen being driven by John Mannering (no relation to “Don’t tell him, Pike!”) a.k.a. the Baron, from the TV Series of the early 1960s.
        C- V8 being Chrysler V8, of course.
        Don’t ask me how they think of the names…

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        1. It’s weird that something with no future (the 3d bit) was included at the same time as the 50p coin was accepted.

          The machines must have needed replacing after a short time…. or maybe that section came out.

          3d for a stamp though just wow.

          The days before they had massive shareholder payouts and incredible salaries to pay.

          And before the days of the dodgy bishop.

          When I read ‘Jensen’, I was thinking surely it can’t be the same company… but I see you went on to explain that it WAS!

          Captain MAINWaring would never have accepted being Captain Mannering… Oh no.

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        2. Jensen also initially made the bodies for the Volvo P1800S (as driven by Roger Moore as Simon Templar in the original TV series of ‘The Saint’), but there were quality issues, after which Volvo brought the body-making back in house.

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  9. 16 Wolseley Hornet, Mini in drag like the Riley Elf. The extra trim made them v sluggish, improved when original 848cc engine replaced by 998cc.

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      1. It is a Riley Tris, but being identical to the Wolsely Hornet except for the badges and minor trim, it’s easily taken for it.
        I’ve had to look twice to be sure myself more often than not.
        British Leyland had this badge-engineering theme running throughout its ranges and the ADO16 1100 had a Riley Kestrel and Wolseley 1100 versions.
        Both nice inside and a little more powerful than the Austin/Morris standard models.
        Similarly, a Riley 1.5 and Wolseley 1500 both appeared in the late 1950s, being cobbled together from the Morris Minor floorpan and Austin A50 B-Series engine.
        Wasn’t a big seller…

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    2. Jim Emailed me as follows:

      Realised almost as soon as I posted that the Mini was a Riley from the shape of the badge. But I have been unable to get back in to correct (tho others have done the job) because WordPress have decided that there are two of me and I need a password to get back in.

      I don’t know if I have a password set up for your site or whether l have to put in my general BT password.

      Should work it out for tomorrow.

      Btw, had an Elf myself, the constipated 848cc version; after a 2.6 (BMC derivative of the legendary Pathfinder) it represented a certain change in travelling experience which was too much for some family members.

      A bientôt, I hope.

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  10. I knew a few but they’ve been guessed. Uncle Albert’s niece was married to Ken Barlow who is the only character to have been there since day one ie 9 December 1960!

    Also I wanted to point out – 50p for a book of stamps? You wouldn’t get one of them for that now! Privatisation, great isn’t it! Okay inflation as well.

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  11. Pic 14 – Irene Handl, English comedienne; Pic 17 – Leeds city centre, 1950s (?) – former Corn Exchange in background. I’ve been in it a few times – very impressive; Pic 19 – MS Devonian, I think. Like the Dunera and Nevasa, all Clyde-built and ended up doing educational cruises towards the end of their service.

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  12. No 5 is the Austin J40 pedal car made in a factory by disabled miners ( pneumoconiosis sp.?) at Bargoed , south Wales from about 1947 until 1970’s . I believe it was started by thr Austin Car Company and was based on their Austin A40. Some examples may be worth a few £1000 today.

    Gwyn

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    2. Maybe something else which is “Pertinent in today’s shrinkflation world.“, to coin a phrase?
      Worth a fair bit of money today.
      I remember them when children would get them for Christmas presents and they’d last until these same children had children of their own…
      The days when things were made to last…

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  13. Apropos de rien. Anybody know who it was whose catchphrase was, “How do, how are yeh?”.

    I feel it may probably have been Wilfred Pickles.

    Showing my age again.

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    1. Yes that was Wilf, John.
      From “Have a Go” on the Light Service.
      Still remember the theme song, sung along by the audience.
      He introduced Mabel at the Table (his wife of that name who doled out the money to the winners) and Vi on the piano – Violet Carson, later to play Ena Sharples in Coronation Street.

      Ah… the things that amused us on those dark winters nights of a lifetime ago…
      “If you told young people today, they wouldn’t believe you!”
      They don’t…

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    2. It was him, John.

      I looked it up, though, so I claim no credit.

      “How do, how are yer?”, “Are yer courting?”, “What’s on the table, Mabel?” and “Give him the money, Barney”. were his phrases.

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    3. Perfectly appropriate given Irene Handl appeared with Pickles in the sitcom ‘For The Love Of Ada’ in the early 1970s (the film version had a theme song written and performed by Gilbert O’Sullivan).

      Handl was a remarkable woman. Not only a very versatile actress (and not just in comedies), but she also wrote two novels which were quite well regarded at the time. Although a Londoner by birth, her father was Austrian and her mother German. She also adored chihuahuas, but no-one’s perfect…

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  14. I’m lost as to where Pic4 is – as ever – but there’s a mid/late 1940s Ford Super De Luxe approaching in the middle of the shot.

    Biff Tannen drove a 1946 convertible one of these in “Back to the Future”…
    Nobody who drives a ’46 Ford is all bad in my book – but I could be wrong…🙄 (Cue much booing, etc.)

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    1. LOL…

      I though Auld Touns would get it.

      Or Danny. But we haven’t heard from Danny this week.

      It’s Harrisville PA, USA.

      To be fair there were no great clues.

      Nah… I don’t think you “do” wrong!

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  15. ‘Potato fudge’ yikes, I dread to think imagine giving that to your kids! Cool pics, a smorgasbord indeed.

    When at school, (secondary school in England not High school as in Scotland) a couple of us girls opted for woodwork class, oh the horror! I found it too boring with measuring bits of wood and all and cutting it with a saw, for no apparemt end, but one of the girls did go into industry at high level, but really, girls were actively discouraged from doing stuff that only the boys/men should do lol! I’d have loved to do geology or something, but it was the shirt fcttory, office work if you were really clever and fanciable, or FE college if you had ideas way above your station lol!

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  16. I missed the bus this week. 😒

    I see we’ve got a Dennis, quite uncommon, a 1949 Dennis Lancet featuring Duple coachwork. (#9)

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